As noted, even
within UNCA
there is a
growing call
for Falk and
her first vice
president to
resign.

This
morning, scrambling,
UNCA
sent its
members a new
invitation,
moving the
event to
something
called “UNCA
Square.”

But
there IS no
“UNCA Square.”

There
is, in front
of the office
of the UN
Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit, a “MALU
Square,” where
after UNCA
refused to
open up its
glassed in
bulletin board
to posts by
non-UNCA
members the UN
after advocacy
by the new Free UN Coalition for Access put up a
non-UNCA
board.

UNCA
nearly
immediately
began posting
on the
non-UNCA board
as well,
without
opening up
their own.
They posted
some events,
under the
signature of
UNCA president
Pamela Falk --
as is done in
some
“authoritarian”
countries.

At
Thursday's UN
noon briefing,
after all
questions but
one were
consumed
braying about
Syria -- not a
single
question on
Africa, where
70% of the
UN's work is
-- Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman was
asked for
comment on the
3 pm event.

He
read out a
statement
claiming that
UNCA is an
“independent
entity.” But
not only is
UNCA --
undeservedly
-- a formal
party to the
UN's Media
Access
Guidelines --
the UN uses
UNCA to get
critical
journalists
thrown out,
and most
recently lets
UNCA's
president
photograph
their raid,
under color of
authority, on
the Inner City
Press office.